Monday, May 25, 2009

The Summer of Tallet rolls on this afternoon

The big oaf takes the mound this afternoon at 1:30 in Baltimore, as the Jays look to cut down significantly on their suckitude and atone for their trespasses from last week. There's no time like the present to pull it together!

Feel free to treat the comments as a live thread, or threat, or pity party, or circle jerk, or whatever.

I've been thinking about picking up a new cap lately, and am leaning toward the black 'T' cap. I'd prefer one of the old school caps, but many of the damn idiots have them and I don't want to be associated with that lot.

Rolen I WANT to believe in, but his best days of being a power hitter are behind him. Is it too late to try to craft him into a situational hitter.

It's just like last year: If the pitching is on, the hitting takes a back seat and vice versa. This is a game they should have in the bag, they should be hungry, even if they win it it's not going to be the kind of of win that increases confidence (unless they hit around in an inning, and even then...).

It's a long season, the world won't end, but this ain't a cold the team is just going to sleep off.

re: hats....I've grown strangely attached to my alternate T logo cap, but she's on her last legs. I wish lids and bluejays.com would stop fucking around with all the variations of the hip-hop style hats the kids wear these days. I'm in my early 30's for fuck sakes. And "official" caps fit (me) like shit with the high crowns and all.

Tao, up to this point, I've been holding off on creating an "inverse boners" tag for posts out of respect for the integrity of this site....but if this shit keeps up to the weekend, all bets are off, dude.

I bought the white front retro cap this year. I like it, but I don't know if it does anything for my appearance. If I add some beige rugby pants and a polo shirt from Wal-Mart, I might be able to get a living assistance check from the government.

Did anyone else think that Guthrie threw fastballs that missed belt high and inner third of the plate in consecutive at-bats by Rios and Wells that they would normally have hammered? I mean, if you're looking for a pitch to pull, that's a better choice than a slider away. Kinda like that fastball in the middle of the zone on a 3-1 count to Lind yesterday that he fouled off after a fastball in the middle of the zone on the 3-0 count.

@Tao & DP , this attracts a different more civilized demo here. People who actually know baseball! Yeah, there is a sense of irony and sarcasm here BUT the underlying theme is smart criticism. DJF is all about Stoeten being a dick, Parkes being the punching bag and Bergkamp along for the ride and just who is Chairman Mao, anywho?

The assholes in the NYC area are all spitting on the Jays as the Yanks passed them. So sad actually only because the big Kahunaon sports talk radio down here keeps on spitting out how great the Red Pox are. WE get it already you want to marry Tito Francona!Hopefully The Jays will get it together.